Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.